Here it is folks... a video sneak peek of native email and PIM apps on the BlackBerry PlayBook!! RIM showed it off during their BlackBery World Keynote today, and working with BIS and BES, this is the full native email and PIM experience you'd find on a BlackBerry Smartphone on the PlayBook.

Sure, it would have been nice if this was on the PlayBook at launch, but what's done is done and it's coming and it'll be here soon. RIM says this summer, and it makes sense that it will be available as the radio versions of the PlayBook hit the market. Hit the video above for a first look!

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BlackBerry PlayBook Native Email and PIM Video Demo!!

To be honest it looks quite dry and you can totally see they still need a lot of work to be done.
Why the heck is everyone cheering and clapping when this is something that should have been a part of the release from the day one.

They are doing that, At least I think they are. Has anyone else noticed that when you compase and email trhough the bride the border along the two sides of the email now looks like a desktop blotter (Cloth-like). Maybe that was always true but I didn't notice it until the latest OS upgrade.

As long as they bring everything over to the wi-fi versions.. anything that doesnt 'need' the RIM NOC. Although a calendar/email w/o the NOC kind of defeats the whole "unified experience", at least having pull email for personal accounts without a blackberry would be nice.

Agree with all of you but I'd rather have it on there since when I bring up the email now it take time to "build" the stuff since everytime you do anything all it is doing is "creating" what's on the Playbook. It's pretty nifty technology but I'd rather not have the delay.

I'm happy now but this would make me happier.

If they got rid of the lags across the bridge then I agree pretty much no value to BB users.

This is definitely a good first step :) I hope they expand it beyond BIS/BES to allow for syncing mail with yahoo/google/imap/pop as well. and multiple calendars, Given the direction seen on the new BB OS7 with the personal/private this might be planned.. :)

I just hope that it's not only for those 3G/4G models & that the WiFi models will also get this update as well. It's looking good & making me want a Playbook more & more. Can't save the money fast enough, LOL. Just wish AT&T would get in gear with the whole "Bridge situation!"

It seems that the native email app is a java app --- "blackberry player" was listed as the title on the bottom of the card view and there is no multitasking when the demo went from email to calender to contacts.

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